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Justin Chambers, a former male fashion model who was discovered by a modeling scout in a Paris Metro station and went on a campaign to represent Calvin Klein's fragrance, starred as "Dr. Alex Karev" on ABC's Grey's Anatomy (2005).

Justin Willman Chambers was born on July 11, 1970 in Springfield, Ohio, His is one of five children of Pamela Sue (Willman) and John William Eugene Chambers II, and has English, Irish, and German ancestry. He has a twin brother (named Jason), one older brother, and two older sisters. While on vacation in Paris, he was spotted by an agent and soon went on modeling for Calvin Klein, Giorgio Armani, and others throughout Europe, Japan and the United States. In the 1990s, he settled in New York, where he studied at H.B. Studios for 4 years. That schooling yielded him appearances in several off-Broadway stage productions and a few television roles.

Chambers' first break came in 1995, a four-month gig on a long-running NBC's daytime soap Another World (1964), then appeared opposite Lolita Davidovich in Harvest of Fire (1996), and in CBS's Rose Hill (1997) opposite Jennifer Garner. After that, he catapulted to the "IT" list of the late 1990s and was described as "part-James Dean, part-Marlon Brando" by Harper's Bazaar in 1998. He made his big screen debut in the featured role of a rich WASP who befriended a Jewish kid in Liberty Heights (1999), a Barry Levinson drama. He then starred as "D'Artagnan" in The Musketeer (2001) alongside Catherine Deneuve and Mena Suvari. He co-starred with Matthew McConaughey and Jennifer Lopez in The Wedding Planner (2001).

His career slowed down for a few years, yielding little meaningful exposure in films and on TV, with the exception of a supporting role alongside Uma Thurman and Gena Rowlands in HBO's Hysterical Blindness (2002). In 2005, Chambers made a comeback starring as "Dr. Alex Karev" opposite Katherine Heigl on ABC's Grey's Anatomy (2005). He also starred as obsessed police detective, "Sgt. Matt Parish", in the thriller The Zodiac (2005).

Chambers has five children with his wife, Keisha, a model agency booker, whom he met while he was modeling with Calvin Klein. The two have been married since 1993. A longtime New Yorker, he used to travel back and forth from New York to L.A. while his family was still in New York. They now reside in Los Angeles.

Lillian Diana Gish was born on October 14, 1893, in Springfield, Ohio. Her father, James Lee Gish, was an alcoholic who caroused, was rarely at home, and left the family to, more or less, fend for themselves. To help make ends meet, Lillian, her sister Dorothy Gish, and their mother, Mary Gish, a.k.a. Mary Robinson McConnell, tried their hand at acting in local productions. Lillian was six years old when she first appeared in front of an audience. For the next 13 years, she and Dorothy appeared before stage audiences with great success. Had she not made her way into films, Lillian quite possibly could have been one of the great stage actresses of all time; however, she found her way onto the big screen when, in 1912, she met famed director D.W. Griffith. Impressed with what he saw, he immediately cast her in her first film, An Unseen Enemy (1912), followed by The One She Loved (1912) and My Baby (1912). She would make 12 films for Griffith in 1912. With 25 films in the next two years, Lillian's exposure to the public was so great that she fast became one of the top stars in the industry, right alongside Mary Pickford, "America's Sweetheart".

In 1915, Lillian starred as Elsie Stoneman in Griffith's most ambitious project to date, The Birth of a Nation (1915). She was not making the large number of films that she had been in the beginning because she was successful and popular enough to be able to pick and choose the right films to appear in. The following year, she appeared in another Griffith classic, Intolerance (1916). By the early 1920s, her career was on its way down. As with anything else, be it sports or politics, new faces appeared on the scene to replace the "old", and Lillian was no different. In fact, she did not appear at all on the screen in 1922, 1925 or 1929. However, 1926 was her busiest year of the decade with roles in La Bohème (1926) and The Scarlet Letter (1926). As the decade wound to a close, "talkies" were replacing silent films. However, Lillian was not idle during her time away from the screen. She appeared in stage productions, to the acclaim of the public and critics alike. In 1933, she filmed His Double Life (1933), but did not make another film for nine years.

When she returned in 1943, she appeared in two big-budget pictures, Commandos Strike at Dawn (1942) and Top Man (1943). Although these roles did not bring her the attention she had had in her early career, Lillian still proved she could hold her own with the best of them. She earned an Oscar nomination as Best Supporting Actress for her role of Laura Belle McCanles in Duel in the Sun (1946), but lost to Anne Baxter in The Razor's Edge (1946).

One of the most critically acclaimed roles of her career came in the thriller The Night of the Hunter (1955), also notable as the only film directed by actor Charles Laughton. In 1969, she published her autobiography, "The Movies, Mr. Griffith, and Me". In 1987, she made what was to be her last motion picture, The Whales of August (1987), a box-office success that exposed her to a new generation of fans. Her 75-year career is almost unbeatable in any field, let alone the film industry. On February 27, 1993, at age 99, Lillian Gish died peacefully in her sleep at her Manhattan apartment in New York City. She never married.

John Roger Stephens, known professionally as John Legend, is an American singer, songwriter, actor, and record producer. He began his musical career by working behind the scenes, playing piano on Lauryn Hill's "Everything Is Everything", and making uncredited guest appearances on Jay-Z's "Encore" and Alicia Keys's "You Don't Know My Name". He then signed to Kanye West's GOOD Music and released his debut album Get Lifted (2004), which reached the top ten on the Billboard 200 and was certified double platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America.

Alaina Reed-Hall was born on 10 November 1946 in Springfield, Ohio, USA. She was an actress, known for 227 (1985), Death Becomes Her (1992) and Cruel Intentions (1999). She was married to Tamim Amini, Kevin Peter Hall and Richard Hannum Cook. She died on 17 December 2009 in Santa Monica, California, USA.

Marsha Dietlein was born in Dayton, Ohio. She grew up in the small town of Sidney, OH, and then moved to Springfield, OH during high school. She always said she wanted to be an actress and found herself living in Los Angeles at the age of 18. Her first starring role was as Lucy in Return of the Living Dead Part 2. She continues to work with many wonderful filmmakers including Todd Field, Ed Burns, and her close friend of many years, Daniel Roebuck. She is often credited as Marsha Dietlein Bennett, which she jokes is the problem of having had too many husbands. She calls New York home.

George Keymas was born on 18 November 1925 in Springfield, Ohio, USA. He was an actor, known for The Twilight Zone (1959), Apache Warrior (1957) and Playhouse 90 (1956). He was married to Karen A Keymas. He died on 17 January 2008 in Palm Beach, Florida, USA.

One of the most influential writers in screen history, W. R. Burnett has contributed countless classic moments in cinema.

Born in Springfield, Ohio, in 1899. By the time he left in 1927, he'd written over a hundred short stories and five novels, all unpublished. At 28, he left a civil service job he'd held for years and moved to Chicago where he found a job as a night-clerk in a seedy hotel. He found himself associating with a cornucopia of characters straight from the mean streets of Chicago -- prize-fighters, hoodlums, hustlers, and hobos. They inspired Little Caesar (novel 1929, film 1931) -- its overnight success landed him a job as a Hollywood screenwriter. Little Caesar (1931) became a classic movie, produced by First National Pictures (Warners) and starring then unknown Edward G. Robinson. The Al Capone theme was one he returned to in 1932 with Scarface (1932).

Burnett kept busy, producing a novel or more a year and turning most into screenplays (some as many as three times). Thematically Burnett was similar to Hammett and James M. Cain but his contrasting of the corruption and corrosion of the city with the better life his characters yearned for, represented by the paradise of the pastoral, was fresh and original. He portrayed characters who have, for one reason or another, fallen into a life of crime. Once sucked into this life they've been unable to climb out. They get one last shot at salvation but the oppressive system closes in and denies redemption.

Burnett's characters exist in world of twilight morality -- virtue can come from gangsters and criminals, malice from guardians and protectors. Above all, all of his characters were human -- this could be their undoing. In High Sierra (1941), Humphrey Bogart's Roy Earle plays a hard-bitten criminal who rejects his life of crime to help a crippled girl. In The Asphalt Jungle (1950), the most perfectly masterminded plot falls apart as each character reveals a weakness. Bruce Crowther wrote that Burnett's screenplays, "while still ostensibly in the cops versus gangsters mold, blur the conventional boundaries of the day." In The Beast of the City (1932), the police take the law into their own hands when the criminals walk free on a legal loophole presaging Dirty Harry (1971) by almost 40 years.

Burnett worked with many of the greats in acting and directing -- to name a few and certainly not all: John Huston, John Ford, Howard Hawks, Nicholas Ray and Michael Cimino, Humphrey Bogart, Ida Lupino, Paul Muni, Frank Sinatra, Marilyn Monroe, Steve McQueen, and Clint Eastwood. He was Oscar nominated for his scripts for Wake Island (1942), and The Great Escape (1963), in addition to his film work he wrote scripts for television and radio. In later years with his vision declining, he stopped writing and turned to promoting his earlier work. In his career, he achieved huge popularity in Europe where his anti-hero ideology was enthusiastically embraced. He died in 1982 aged 82.

An Ohioan by birth, son of a minister, Ken Miller broke quietly into showbiz behind the backs of his parents, then relocated to California after the death of his father. The familiar array of odd jobs preceded his motion picture debut (1952's Fearless Fagan (1952)) and a stint with Uncle Sam in Berlin (where he took time off to play a recurring role in the low-cost Flash Gordon (1954) TV series). Returning to Tinseltown, he palled around with contemporaries like Connie Stevens, Troy Donahue, Annette Funicello, Burt Reynolds and others. While he never neared their level of success, he nevertheless kept busy cutting his own records and acting on the large and small screen. In later years Miller resided in Florida until his death.

Comely, busty, and shapely blonde bombshell Crista Nicole Wagner was born on July 24, 1978 in Springfield, Ohio. Crista not only played softball, basketball, and soccer while she was a student at Northeastern High School in Springfield, Ohio, but also ran track and did some cheerleading as well. Following graduation from high school Nicole went on to attend Kent State University as a psychology major. After winning several bikini contests which include the National Bikini Contest in 2000 and Miss Hawaiian Tropic in 2001, Crista was chosen to be the Playmate of the Month in the May, 2001 issue of "Playboy." Moreover, Nicole has worked for Pete's Wicked Ale as a promotional model.

Christopher J. Molnar was born in Springfield, Ohio, USA. Christopher J. is a producer and production manager, known for NCIS: Los Angeles (2009), NCIS (2003) and Suits LA (2025).

Composer, songwriter, guitarist, accompanist, and 17-year music supervisor for Bing Crosby. For twenty years he was associated with Al Jolson and Eddie Cantor on radio and recordings, and he was a guitarist with the orchestras of Paul Whiteman, John Scott Trotter, Victor Young, and Johnny Green. He was a guitar soloist in films and in concerts and on television. Joining ASCAP in 1950, his chief musical collaborator was Preston Foster. His song compositions include "Two Shillelagh O'Sullivan", "Duke of the Uke", "Ukey-Ukulele", "Pick-A-Lili", "Executioner Theme", and "Waltz of the Hunter". He composed (and sometimes performed) the background music for the first 2 seasons of "The Beverly Hillbillies". Certain cues from those seasons are accredited to both Botkin and series creator Paul Henning. "Elly May's Theme" is one such title.

Rachel Grubb was born on 3 June 1976 in Springfield, Ohio, USA. She is an actress and producer, known for Why Am I in a Box? (2010), The Horror Vault Vol.1 (2008) and The Tiki War (2014).

Phil Garrett is Head of Production and Development for Good Deed Entertainment and its genre label, Cranked Up Films. He's produced projects with Genre Labs, Elevate Pictures, Arbor Avenue Films, Mosquito Entertainment, and ZapruderFlix, among others, ranging in genre from horror to science fiction, action, realist dramas, and documentaries. His experimental and documentary shorts have screened in galleries and venues in the US, Iceland, Portugal, Germany, Ireland, and Greece. He shares the Best Screenplay award from the 2021 H.P. Lovecraft Film Festival with writer Brian R. Hauser for their adaptation of Lovecraft's "The Haunter of the Dark." He holds a Master of Fine Arts degree in theatre from The Ohio State University where his work focused on Integrated Media, Video, Directing, and New Works, and culminated in the immersive theater experience and film, "All Things Shining."

Famed vaudeville comedian Bobby Clark was born in Springfield, Ohio on June 16, 1888. When he was 12 years old, Bobby and his classmate Paul McCullough created a tumbling act that they took on the road. The duo toured with a traveling minstrel troupe before joining a circus as clowns. The clown act eventually matured to the point where it was time to graduate from the circus to the more sophisticated vaudeville circuit.

Clark & McCullough debuted as a vaudeville comedy team at the Opera House in New Brunswick, New Jersey in 1912. Their popularity increased, and after the First World War, they began appearing in London, where they made a great success in musical-comedy. After seeing them in London, composer Irving Berlin signed them for his own Broadway show, the "Music Box Revue". It was a smash hit, and by the time taking pictures debuted, they signed with Fox for a series of one-reel recreations of their act. However, both comedians were uncomfortable with the new medium and soon returned to Broadway. In 1930, RKO-Radio Pictures signed them up to make shorts, and the deal allowed them to continue making Broadway appearances. From 1930 to 1935, from A Peep on the Deep (1930) to Alibi Bye Bye (1935), Clark & McCullough appeared in 22 shorts for RKO, many of which were scripted by Clark himself, with Clark nominally the dominant one closely shadowed by the less talkative McCullough, who was known for his reactive, raucous laugh.

In 1935, after they had finished their vigorous slate of short films for RKO, Clark & McCullough went on tour with "The George White's Scandals". However, McCullough experienced a nervous breakdown from overwork and was committed to a sanitarium for depression and extreme exhaustion. Shortly after being released in early-to-mid March 1936, the comedian visited a barbershop (on March 23rd), and attempted suicide by slicing his neck and wrists with the barber's own razor. Paul McCullough died two days later.

Bobby Clark was devastated. Aside from a bit part in The Goldwyn Follies (1938), he never again appeared in movies. He spent several months in seclusion after his partner's death, but finally returned to Broadway in "The Ziegfeld Follies of 1936". His appearances on Broadway continued, and his fame grew again as he appeared in legitimate plays such as Sheridan's "The Rivals" as well as musical comedies and revues. Begining in 1942, producer Mike Todd cast him in five Broadway shows, all of them smash hits: the musical revue "Stars & Garters" with Gypsy Rose Lee (1942-43); the Cole Porter musical "Mexican Hayride"(1944-45); a production of Molière's "The Would-Be Gentleman"(1946); and the musical revues "As the Girls Go"(1950) and "Michael Todd's Peep Show" (1951).

Bobby Clark also hosted segments of the TV show The Colgate Comedy Hour (1950) produced by Todd. He then bid showbiz adieu, although he emerged from retirement in 1956 to tour with the road show of "Damn Yankees!". Clark died on February 12, 1960, having outlived the minstrel show, vaudeville and burlesque eras. He was 71 years old. The duo of Clark & McCullough is lesser known today than their comedy contemporaries (Three Stooges, Laurel & Hardy", etc.) primarily because their many short films were considered too risqué to be replayed on TV.

Robert Buscemi was born on 10 May 1969 in Springfield, Ohio, USA. He is an actor, known for Grace and Frankie (2015), Snowfall (2017) and Ray Donovan (2013).

Paul Dunlap was born on 19 July 1919 in Springfield, Ohio, USA. He was a composer, known for The Big Boss (1971), The Dreamers (2003) and You Were Never Really Here (2017). He died on 11 March 2010 in Palm Springs, California, USA.

Bigelow Cooper was born in 1878 in Springfield, Ohio, USA. He was an actor, known for Vanity Fair (1915), The Treasure of Captain Kidd (1913) and Caste (1913). He was married to Anne L. ?. He died in 1953 in Westchester County, New York, USA.

Ramona Grace Dougherty was born on 4 July 1928 in Springfield, Ohio, USA. Ramona Grace was married to Howard J. Dougherty and Jack Belli. Ramona Grace died on 21 September 2012 in Columbus, Ohio, USA.

Mike DeWine was born on 5 January 1947 in Springfield, Ohio, USA. He has been married to Frances Struewing since 3 June 1967. They have eight children.

Jarrod Robbins was born on 17 June 1980 in Springfield, Ohio, USA. He is an actor and writer, known for Don't Look (2018), The Zombie Defense (2016) and TV for Monsters (2017). He was previously married to Emily Krughoff.

Amelia Batchelor was born on 2 February 1908 in Springfield, Ohio, USA. She was an actress. She died on 15 April 2002 in Santa Monica, California, USA.

Wayne was born in Springfield, Ohio, but when he was one his family moved to Anaconda, Montana. The family moved again in 1960 to Orange County in Southern California.

In college he majored in physics and astronomy with an interest in becoming an astronomer. After two years of community college he spent one semester at the University of Arizona in Tucson. Later while attending California State University, Long Beach, he lost interest in school and dropped out. For the next several years he worked a school custodian. However, in the early 1980s he went back to college, and at thirty-three graduated from California State University, Fullerton with a degree in Theatre.

After college, as a taxi cab driver for a while. Eventually he started working in Hollywood after getting extra work in several movies and TV shows, including the film The Fisher King and the television series "Gabriel's Fire"

Wayne continues his interest in Astronomy and has many other interest, including writing, with which he hopes to make yet another career.

Patricia Parks was born on 29 April 1934 in Springfield, Ohio, USA. She was married to Jerry Parks. She died on 18 November 1978 in Port Kaituma, Guyana.

Rebecca Wright was born on 5 December 1947 in Springfield, Ohio, USA. She was an actress, known for Stardust Memories (1980), The Nutcracker (1977) and The CBS Festival of Lively Arts for Young People (1973). She was married to George De La Pena and Charles Spaeth. She died on 29 January 2006 in Chevy Chase, Maryland, USA.

Drew Daniel was born on 28 April 1982 in Springfield, Ohio, USA. He is an actor, known for He's Such a Girl (2009), Related (2005) and Big Brother (2000).